HEADS-UP: amd64 UEFI boot is broken

[Ed Maste]

On 10 November 2014 20:17, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
> UEFI booting is broken for amd64 as of r273582 (Oct 24). The symptom
> is an apparent hang after the loader transfers control to the kernel
> (no output from the kernel is observed). Until this is addressed you
> can checkout an earlier revision or revert r273582 locally.

I have committed a workaround for this issue in r274382. The vt(4) EFI
framebuffer driver makes use of kernel infrastructure in a way that is
not correct, but works in practice, and this was caught by a new
assertion added in r273582. My change loosens the assertion to allow
efifb's use for now.

We will need to fix the early framebuffer implementation in a subsequent change.

-Ed